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WILLIAM sTRAUB,

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1907.

Application filed August 24, 1905. Serial No. 275,641.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STRAUB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and the State of Ohio, have invented an Improvement in a Box, of which this is a specification.

This invention relates to a box designed especially for use as a delivery box for grocers, but also adapted for use as a crate and adapted to be made in any de sired size. It is common for grocers to deliver goods in ordinary boxes in which goods have been shipped to them and these boxes are not only inconvenient to handle but also take up .considerable floor space.

The object of my invention is a box which can be readily handled and which is of such shape that when empty the boxes can be readily nested.

The invention consists of the novel features of con" struction hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawings in which: i

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box. Fig. 2 is a plan view. Fig. 3 is a vertical section. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the base frame. Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of the corner piece. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail plan views showing two ways of joining the sections forming corner pieces. Fig. '8 is a partial side elevation showing a slight modification employed in boxes to be used as shipping crates. Fig. 9 is a perspective View to illustrate manner of nesting boxes. It may also be stated that Fig. 4 will serve as an inverted plan view of the top frame as well as plan of the base frame.

In constructing the box I employ a rectangular base 1, and a similar top frame 2, the latter being larger in order to provide for the sloping of the sides of the box. The side members forming frames 1' and 2 are jointed together in any desired manner, as by a tongue and groove, and the side frames are longitudinally grooved upon their inner faces as shown at 3. A bottom 4 is formed of slats which are held in place in the bottom frame 1 by means of the grooves 3. Grooves 5 are formed on the upper faces of opposite side members of the base frame the said grooves being extended at the corners and extending a short distance in the adjacent side members to provide an angledseat for the corner pieces, and the under face of the top frame 2 has similar grooves formed therein to secure the upper ends of the corner pieces. Corner pieces 6 are formed of two boards placed at suitable angles to each other and jointed by means of a tongue and groove as shown at 7 in Fig. 6, or at 8 in Fig. 7. The corner pieces 6 are wedge shaped decreasing in width towards the bottom to allow for the inclination of the sides and at the top they carry upwardly extending tongues adapted to engage the grooves 5 of the frame 2. At their lower ends the members of the corner pieces are provided with tongues 10 to engage grooves 5 adjacent to the corners of the frame 1. Along one vertical face of each corner piece extends a groove 11. The sides of the box between the corner 6 consists on two opposite sides of upwardly and outwardly inclined slats 12 the lower ends of which rest in the grooves 5 of the base frame 1 and in the corresponding grooves formed in the under faces of the top frame 2. The two other sides of the box are formed of horizontally arranged slats 13 the ends of which are secured in the grooves 11 formed in the corner pieces 6. The uppermost slats 13 are cut out as shown at 14 to form a hand-hole so that the boxes can be conveniently lifted and moved from place to place. The corners of the boxes may be further strengthened by means of metal bands nailed or otherwise secured at the corners.

In Fig. 8 I have shown a construction suitable for boxes intended to be used as crates, and in which I employ slats 16 reduced in widthfrom the ends of the slats towards their centers thereby leaving an opening between the slats, and the corner pieces 17 are perforated as shown at 18, and this construction allows for the ventilation of the crate. The bottom and. all of the sides of the crate can be composed of slats reduced in. width as shown at 16 in Fig. 8.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A box of the kind described comprising outwardly sloping sides, said sides being of less length than the width of the box, wedge-shaped corner pieces connecting adjacent ends of the sides, each corner piece consisting of two sec tions arranged at right angles to each other, one of said sections being provided with a groove and the other section being provided with a tongue to engage said groove, a rectangular frame carried by the sides and extending across said corner sections, the said frame being grooved, and tongues carried by said corner sections and engaging the grooves of the frame, as and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM STRAUB.

Witnesses:

ALBERT STRAUB, JAMES R. KLEI-FER. 

